Report by Tibo Laudren:

2014 Europeans Championships: NOR Amendment Nr 1
Attached you will find the first amendment to the Bordeaux Europeans 2014the Notice of race A Class European Championship 2014 with the Amendment N° 1 (Fleet Splitting)

Congrega Velisti Cesenatico celebrated 40 years of their Vele di Pasqua Regatta. They organized a showroom to display some historic goods.
On the water Luca Maffessoli won with 3 bullets out of 6 races and 9 points ahead former European Champ, Bob Baier.
Third place for Micky Todd. 40 boats participated on the event.

Congrega official website http://www.congregavelisti.it
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Mischa Heemskerk dominated the first Dutch event of the 2014 season at Muiderzand with 5 bullets out of six races. Followed by GBR Chris Field and local sailor & A-cat builder PJ Dwarshuis.

Jasper van Staveren has sent a nice set of pics of the event. Check & contact Jasper's website at http://www.jaspervanstaveren.com
Full image gallery at IACA FB

The 2014 Europeans will be held this June 20-29 at Cercle Voile Bordeaux, France. We contacted Hervé Ledue, event coordinator and 2013 French National Champ to know more about the venue and how he got involved in sailing A-Cats.

Hervé also maintains an all A-Cat blog: http://acatsailing.blogspot.com with local and International activity.

Good news for the Class having Gabart & Presti onboard for the Europeans. Gabart, ex Tornado sailor, has won the Vendee Globe last year and has participated at the 2013 F18 Worlds where he finished 4th overall.
He has been sailing the Flying Phantom lately thus getting flight hours. Now is training for the Europeans on the new Dominik Scheurer's/D3 A-Cat. Photo left with Askell built mast.

Philippe Presti is already registered too, the former Finn Olympic sailor and sailing coach for Oracle Team USA has also sailed the Flying Phantom and both will be racing at Bordeaux.

Ben Moon continues to demonstrate his excellent racing status by winning another event in the US. This time at the Hall Spars Admiral Cup organized by the Gulf Port Yacht Club.
Ben didn´t went to Takapuna and also missed the 2013 Europeans, hope to see him along a good contingent of US sailors at Bordeaux in June.

In second place Jeremy Herrin, the young star of the US catracing scene along some other talented youths.
He also has a custom A-Cat project www.ah-sailing.blogspot.com
Ben Hall ended 3rd.

With flying boats being a reality under current rules, more yards are pursuing to achieve this new mode.
Andy Scheurer from Scheurer Boot Werft AG has launched a new version of their A-Cat. Sandro Caviezel sent us this pic and video of their first session. More details will follow.
Contact Andy Scheurer at http://www.scheurerwerft.ch/

Hobie Alter made Catsailing and Racing more popular when he launched the Hobie 14 in the late 60s', followed by the H16 and others models, including the single handed Hobie 17, with a similar A-cat setup.
Many of us started sailing in his designs, still great feeder classes for high performance cats like the A-Class.

France is going to organize next Europeans in June 21-29 at Bordeaux. And the french fanatic multihull sailors have two local built A-Cat alternatives to chose from , the Addiction and the Askell. Thibault Laudren sails the latter and has sent a nice onboard video from a freeride at Quiberon.